MMM-Page-Selector: A page switcher that can set positions of modules

Veldrovive

Changes that edit the way users must set up their config.js file have been made to this module. The position prop is no longer necessary to have inside the module config and the way to exclusions are handled has changed. For more information, look at the updated readme in the development branch of the GitHub page.
These changes will be merged into the master branch in a couple of days which will cause errors if your config is not updated.

rudibarani

Dear @Veldrovive,

would it be possible to add an option to make the current page persistent until the next page change?

I have to use cases where this would help:

if the Pi restarts, the Mirror always shows the standard page - no matter what page was active before the restart.
if you open the Mirror on a browser (e.g. mobile phone), you always see the standard page until the next page change happens.

In both cases, if would be great to see the currently “active” page. Maybe there is a way to store and restore the current page?

Thanks a lot for your active development of the module!

Veldrovive

Persistent properties such as those could be achieved through a temp file so definitely something that could be implemented.
My reading week is over so I don’t have as much time to do development now, but I’ll get it done in some free time.

rudibarani

@veldrovive That would be great - thanks a lot!!!
You could implement it as an option for the config part - maybe there are people out there that like to have a fallback to the standard page.

Veldrovive

Yea. I’m trying my best not to change base functionality so any sort of bells and whistles like this will have to be manually activated.

rudibarani

@Veldrovive If I got your new pages-implementation right, we define a name for a module which is later used to organize the page layout. Is that correct? Would it be possible to give multiple names to the same module (not have on module configured and shown multiple times via different names)?

It would be helpful for modules with rate-limited APIs, if different parts of one module should be shown at different locations on the same page. I would like to achieve this via a custom css which addresses your name-tag.

If this where possible, I would like to take this one step further in the future and implement a distance based layout which keeps the information most important to me readable throughout the room, when I prepare for my way to work. Changing the layout via css could be dynamic and would not involve a whole page refresh as it occurs when switching between pages.

Veldrovive

Ok, I’ve implemented persistent pages. In order to access them right now, you need to be in the development branch since I don’t have the time to do extensive testing.

I’m not exactly sure what you mean when you say “not have on module configured and shown multiple times via different names”. You do not want to have the same module shown multiple times on the same page?
If the module was shown multiple times by this module, then all the instances would have the same config and I don’t see how that would help with rate-limited APIs.
Could you clarify?

rudibarani

Thanks for the persistent pages. I can try them today or tomorrow.

Regarding showing one module multiple times: I do not want to put e.g. “clock” multiple times into the config.js and show it in different places on the screen.

My idea was - and I hope that I got the concept right - that if the same module (which is implemented only once in the config.js and calls the API only once) could be shown multiple times on one page. Then I could set multiple name-tags for that module and address each representation of this module separately via the name-tag in the custom.css file and show/hide/scale different parts of the module at different locations on the screen. This could be of general use for other people as well.

My next step after this would be to learn how to inject css info dynamically - e.g. to keep infos about my upcoming trains/flights, the traffic-map to the station and weather info at my destination at the same visual size as I move throughout the room. This I would like to achieve with a distance measurement via PIR or doppler-microwave-sensor.

I hope this helps to explain the idea I had.

Veldrovive

The way that this system would have to work could not reduce API calls. Duplicating the module would simply send two calls instead of one. As I understand it, a large rework of how magic mirror works at a much baser level than what this module does would be necessary to change that.
It would be possible to have one module shown in different places by assigning it multiple names, but I don’t see how that would really be useful.

rudibarani

OK - thank for your feedback.

Do you have any idea on how to change the css-info or the class of a module on the fly? Would this be possible through notifications?